Brian Beutler: The Trump Lie Machine Is Broken

[Dennis Donovan]

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Greg Sargent
Interesting Brian Beutler case that Trump's serial lying and scamming may have finally broken the GOP attack machine:

"We may finally have moved beyond taking Trump loyalists at face value, or pretending they have any kind of consistent ethic."

The Trump Lie Machine Is Broken

Trump's signature methods of smearing, exploiting, and pandering are suddenly getting him nowhere.

Brian Beutler

Sep 20, 2024

It shouldn’t have taken a year, let alone nine, for political elites to stop getting snookered by Donald Trump.

I say that as someone with very low expectations. Being an easy mark is part of the price of admission to the heights of American discourse. For a decade before Trump took over the GOP, I watched national political reporters bobble their heads in unison when Republican leaders insisted “deficits don’t matter” (because the president was a Republican) then bobble their heads some more when Republicans decried deficits as a threat to American security (because the president was a Democrat), never once catching on that their sources were just lying. They had no firm convictions on significant matters of public policy. It was all rank opportunism.

But under Trump’s tutelage, things degenerated rapidly. Republicans weren’t just situationally inconsistent about fiscal policy—to their credit, they’ve mustered surprisingly little fake umbrage over deficits during Joe Biden’s presidency. Instead, they began lying and bullshitting about everything.

And still, frustratingly, national political reporters far too often accepted their claims and pseudoutrages at face value. Republicans could pretend to care about democracy or Hunter Biden’s influence peddling and media elites would seldom notice that they were taking orders from Donald Trump, the insurrection-leading felon who made his presidency a conduit for bribes.

But for the past two months lying hasn’t gotten Trump and his loyalists nearly as far as they’ve grown accustomed to. Finally.

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Bullshit only spreads so far...

[House of Roberts]

1. How can it be broken when lying is the default condition?

[Dennis Donovan]

2. No one but Trump supporters believe anything Trump/Vance says...

Undecided voters aren't buying it. His attempts to change minds with his lies no longer works. Besides, I think we're at the point where voters have made their choices. Now, it's GOTV.

[republianmushroom]

3. The convicted felons loyalists have any kind of consistent "ethic."

How about any "ethics", period. Ethics in the same sentence with the convicted felon, surly, you are stroking me, right.

44 months and counting (includes foot dragging)

[Lovie777]

4. The GQPs are into victim mode and blame game........................

while continuation of lying and making up shit............

And I myself is effing tired of it while corporate media sane gaslighting.

ENOUGH, and let the Haitians have some peace.